The Rangers opened camp today with Coach John Tortorella’s
infamous endurance skating test.There
won’t be a puck on the ice until
Sunday, but Tortorella considers this to be an important indicator of how
players trained over the summer and to prepare them for the grueling road
ahead.

Andrew Gross explains how the test works, “The groups are
doing six, three-lap repetitions. The timing goes like this: Overall time,
individual laps and comparison of early and later laps are all compiled to show
what kind of shape the player is in.”